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BOURNE v. WALT DISNEY CO.

Nos. 1578, 1579, Dockets 94-7793, 94-7847.

68 F.3d 621 (1995)

Beebe BOURNE, d/b/a Bourne Co., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. The WALT DISNEY COMPANY and Buena Vista Home Video, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Tower Records, Inc., Barnes & Noble Bookstores, Inc., Blockbuster Entertainment Corp., RKO Warner Video, Inc. and John Does 1 through 100, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart A. Summit (George Berger, Theodore C. Max, Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

Sanford M. Litvack (Jacob M. Yellin, The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA, Clark E. Walter, Joanna R. Swomley, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Stephen H. Sulmeyer, Santa Monica, CA, for Karen Adams and Gretchen Thomas Anderson as amici curiae.

Alan L. Shulman, Scott L. Baker, Silverman & Shulman, P.C., New York City, of counsel, for National Music Publishers' Association, Inc. as amicus curiae.

Fritz E. Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., Washington, DC, Jon A. Baumgarten, Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, of counsel, for The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. as amicus curiae.

Dixon Q. Dern, Warren D. Dern, Dern & Vein, Los Angeles, CA, of counsel, for Video Software Dealers Association as amicus curiae.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND and MINER, Circuit Judges, and COTE, District Judge.

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee Beebe Bourne, doing business as the Bourne Co. ("Bourne"), brought this copyright infringement action against defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Walt Disney Co. and Buena Vista Home Video (collectively, "Disney").

Bourne's first claim of infringement arose from Disney's sale of videocassette recordings featuring Bourne's copyrighted compositions from the motion pictures "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...

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